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Backers of a ballot measure to offer Michigan prisoners the option to reduce their sentences through good behavior likely won’t collect the number of signatures needed to make the 2024 ballot. They’re hoping lawmakers will take up the torch.
Michigan has more per capita landfill trash than any state in the country. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is proposing new fees to deter imports. Some fear new fees could hurt residents too.
One day after the first over-the-counter pills began shipments, Michigan lawmakers weighed whether pharmacists could prescribe other types of birth control.
The warm weather has caused mosquitoes to emerge a month earlier than they typically would in Michigan. And no, the early appearance doesn't mean fewer mosquitoes this summer.
After school administrators said they didn’t think the proposed bills could be implemented within the required timeline, lawmakers amended the legislation to give schools more time.
Four years after floods swept away two mid-Michigan dams, a wave of discontent among property owners over their share of the bill will delay some of the restoration work, officials said.
